India charts a separate way. Addressing the nation on Saturday, PM Narendra Modi announced that children in the 15-18 years age group will now get COVID-19 vaccines starting 3rd January 2022. Youngsters getting vaccine dose is expected to aid in education normalization in schools and will reduce the worry of parents with school-going children.
As a precautionary measure, the government has also decided that precaution dose of vaccine will be started for frontline workers and healthcare workers with an effort to strengthen the ongoing pandemic battle. PM Modi said that citizens above 60 years of age with co-morbidities will also have the option of the Precaution Dose of the vaccine on the recommendation of their doctors. This will also be available from January 10, 2022 onwards.
The Prime Minister further announced that India will soon get a nasal vaccine and the world's first DNA vaccine. He said that India has relentlessly worked to keep citizens safe and all the decisions taken are based on the suggestions by country’s top scientists.